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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 56 | Wednesday April 14, 2010
InDEX
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
10 · Crossword
12 · Sports
Time consumer: New Coheed
and Cambria album closes out a
five-part saga. PAGE 5
Struggling: No. 10 USC men’s golf
finishes 5th after poor final round
Tuesday. PAGE 12
By Chloe Stepney
Daily Trojan
The USC School of Social Work
will hold a memorial service
Wednesday to remember Jennifer
Paek, a Ph.D. candidate who died
in New York last Wednesday.
The service for Paek, who was
in her second year at USC, will
be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Social
Work Center Gabilan Courtyard.
“She was just a really, real-ly
beautiful person,” said Minah
Kim, Paek’s close friend and class-mate
in the Ph.D. program. “So
many people were surrounded by
Jennifer’s love.”
Paek was born in New York on
October 7, 1979, but was raised in
Southern California. She received
a bachelor’s degree in Asian
American studies from UCLA be-fore
moving on to receive a mas-ter’s
of social welfare from the
same school.
“She was very passionate about
learning, education and educat-ing
as a social worker,” Kim said.
In her doctoral work at
USC, Paek focused on health
Memorial for
Ph.D. student to
be held today
A memorial for Jennifer Paek
will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the
School of Social Work courtyard.
| see Memorial, page 2 |
By Amanda Pillon
Daily Trojan
USC’s recycling efforts could still be improved, but
as students who toured USC’s waste management facil-ity
Tuesday found out, more than half of USC’s waste is
ultimately diverted from landfills.
USC waste management and the Undergraduate
Student Government led a tour Tuesday of the Athens
Services Material Recovery Facility, which handles
USC’s waste. The tour was intended to give students
deeper insight into how recycling works at USC.
“Most people don’t know about recycling at USC,”
said John Baldo, USG director of university affairs.
“There’s this huge perception [that] we don’t recycle.”
According to Eric Johnson of USC waste manage-ment,
USC collected a total of 7,695 tons of waste in
2009. Of that waste, 3,899 of those tons were recycled,
giving the school a diversion rate of 51 percent.
Everything put into USC’s trash and recycling bins
goes to either the Athens Services facility in the City of
Industry, Calif., or to a recycling plant closer to USC,
said Mario Gutierrez, vice president of operations at
Athens Services, who headed the tour.
At the facility, waste is generally sorted into a pro-cessing
pile and a transfer pile at the beginning of each
process. The processing pile is sorted for recyclables
while the transfer pile goes straight to a landfill.
“Some loads aren’t worth processing,” Gutierrez
said. “We see if it’s what we call ‘fluffy’ or ‘not fluffy’
Students watch
USC’s waste
process firsthand
Materials designated as recyclables beforehand
are sent to a different facility than regular waste.
| see Waste, page 3 |
By Liz Warden
Daily Trojan
As part of the first ever Africa Week, experts
gathered Tuesday to discuss the media’s failure
to show the culture and everyday life of African
people through its news coverage.
The panel, organized by Daniel Atwater,
president of the USC branch of the Sierra Leone
Educational Enrichment Project, was one of five
events held this week as part of Africa Week.
The week’s events, which include film screen-ings
and discussion, focus on different coun-tries
within the continent and on positive expo-sure
and development in the continent.
Atwater said he, among others, coordinated
and marketed Africa Week, which he said will
be scheduled every April in the future. By col-laborating
with other student organizations
like Invisible Children, a group dedicated to
raising awareness about children in Uganda,
and reaching out to Adam Clayton Powell, vice
provost for globalization, he was able to put to-gether
the string of events that started Saturday
and will end today.
Invisible Children had hoped to launch Africa
Week last year, but it did not come together.
“So I said, ‘You know what, Invisible Children,
I’ll make sure it finally happens,’” Atwater said.
Tuesday’s panel, which was the highlight of
Africa Week, included Michael Parks, a profes-sor
at the Annenberg School for Communication
& Journalism and former Pulitzer Prize winner
who has worked as a foreign correspondent in
Africa; Chris Mendez, technology director of
the Tiziano Project; Bob Reid, executive vice
president and general manager of the Africa
Channel; and Carola Weil, associate dean for
planning and strategic initiatives at Annenberg.
About 50 students, faculty staff and outside vis-itors
attended the event.
All of the panelists agreed there is a lack of
positive coverage of Africa in the media but
spoke of different ways to approach the issue.
Parks said it is important for the media to
Panelists discuss media coverage as part of first ever Africa week
Sierra Leone Educational Enrichment
Project hopes to raise awareness of issues
in Africa through screenings and panel.
| see Africa, page 2 |
Brandon Hui | Daily Trojan
Breaking news · Bob Reid, the executive vice president and general manager of the Africa
Channel, talks about ways the media could better portray Africa and its issues to the public.
Big talk
Albert “Skip” Rizzo made a presentation at Bovard Auditorium on Tuesday for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies as part
of the TEDxUSC conference. The center developed a virtual reality system to help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder. The
TEDxUSC conference was a daylong event and featured new technology demonstrations, presentations and musical performances.
Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 56 | Wednesday April 14, 2010
InDEX
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
10 · Crossword
12 · Sports
Time consumer: New Coheed
and Cambria album closes out a
five-part saga. PAGE 5
Struggling: No. 10 USC men’s golf
finishes 5th after poor final round
Tuesday. PAGE 12
By Chloe Stepney
Daily Trojan
The USC School of Social Work
will hold a memorial service
Wednesday to remember Jennifer
Paek, a Ph.D. candidate who died
in New York last Wednesday.
The service for Paek, who was
in her second year at USC, will
be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Social
Work Center Gabilan Courtyard.
“She was just a really, real-ly
beautiful person,” said Minah
Kim, Paek’s close friend and class-mate
in the Ph.D. program. “So
many people were surrounded by
Jennifer’s love.”
Paek was born in New York on
October 7, 1979, but was raised in
Southern California. She received
a bachelor’s degree in Asian
American studies from UCLA be-fore
moving on to receive a mas-ter’s
of social welfare from the
same school.
“She was very passionate about
learning, education and educat-ing
as a social worker,” Kim said.
In her doctoral work at
USC, Paek focused on health
Memorial for
Ph.D. student to
be held today
A memorial for Jennifer Paek
will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the
School of Social Work courtyard.
| see Memorial, page 2 |
By Amanda Pillon
Daily Trojan
USC’s recycling efforts could still be improved, but
as students who toured USC’s waste management facil-ity
Tuesday found out, more than half of USC’s waste is
ultimately diverted from landfills.
USC waste management and the Undergraduate
Student Government led a tour Tuesday of the Athens
Services Material Recovery Facility, which handles
USC’s waste. The tour was intended to give students
deeper insight into how recycling works at USC.
“Most people don’t know about recycling at USC,”
said John Baldo, USG director of university affairs.
“There’s this huge perception [that] we don’t recycle.”
According to Eric Johnson of USC waste manage-ment,
USC collected a total of 7,695 tons of waste in
2009. Of that waste, 3,899 of those tons were recycled,
giving the school a diversion rate of 51 percent.
Everything put into USC’s trash and recycling bins
goes to either the Athens Services facility in the City of
Industry, Calif., or to a recycling plant closer to USC,
said Mario Gutierrez, vice president of operations at
Athens Services, who headed the tour.
At the facility, waste is generally sorted into a pro-cessing
pile and a transfer pile at the beginning of each
process. The processing pile is sorted for recyclables
while the transfer pile goes straight to a landfill.
“Some loads aren’t worth processing,” Gutierrez
said. “We see if it’s what we call ‘fluffy’ or ‘not fluffy’
Students watch
USC’s waste
process firsthand
Materials designated as recyclables beforehand
are sent to a different facility than regular waste.
| see Waste, page 3 |
By Liz Warden
Daily Trojan
As part of the first ever Africa Week, experts
gathered Tuesday to discuss the media’s failure
to show the culture and everyday life of African
people through its news coverage.
The panel, organized by Daniel Atwater,
president of the USC branch of the Sierra Leone
Educational Enrichment Project, was one of five
events held this week as part of Africa Week.
The week’s events, which include film screen-ings
and discussion, focus on different coun-tries
within the continent and on positive expo-sure
and development in the continent.
Atwater said he, among others, coordinated
and marketed Africa Week, which he said will
be scheduled every April in the future. By col-laborating
with other student organizations
like Invisible Children, a group dedicated to
raising awareness about children in Uganda,
and reaching out to Adam Clayton Powell, vice
provost for globalization, he was able to put to-gether
the string of events that started Saturday
and will end today.
Invisible Children had hoped to launch Africa
Week last year, but it did not come together.
“So I said, ‘You know what, Invisible Children,
I’ll make sure it finally happens,’” Atwater said.
Tuesday’s panel, which was the highlight of
Africa Week, included Michael Parks, a profes-sor
at the Annenberg School for Communication
& Journalism and former Pulitzer Prize winner
who has worked as a foreign correspondent in
Africa; Chris Mendez, technology director of
the Tiziano Project; Bob Reid, executive vice
president and general manager of the Africa
Channel; and Carola Weil, associate dean for
planning and strategic initiatives at Annenberg.
About 50 students, faculty staff and outside vis-itors
attended the event.
All of the panelists agreed there is a lack of
positive coverage of Africa in the media but
spoke of different ways to approach the issue.
Parks said it is important for the media to
Panelists discuss media coverage as part of first ever Africa week
Sierra Leone Educational Enrichment
Project hopes to raise awareness of issues
in Africa through screenings and panel.
| see Africa, page 2 |
Brandon Hui | Daily Trojan
Breaking news · Bob Reid, the executive vice president and general manager of the Africa
Channel, talks about ways the media could better portray Africa and its issues to the public.
Big talk
Albert “Skip” Rizzo made a presentation at Bovard Auditorium on Tuesday for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies as part
of the TEDxUSC conference. The center developed a virtual reality system to help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder. The
TEDxUSC conference was a daylong event and featured new technology demonstrations, presentations and musical performances.
Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan